This month's Buzz: the Vice Issue

October: hooded sweatshirts, the crunch of foliage, the closing of a few windows, a final drive to Skinner State Park, the heightened nostalgia, the sweater-vests and academic stutters, the annual trip to the cockfight or your porn store's video booths in the early sunset. At least that's what this fall means to us, in this issue: vice. In your backyard. Learn all about the following, tomorrow, in print and online:

Hunter Thompson and Norman Mailer tried to cover the porn industry and gave up. My own comprehensive failure follows: a local's account of performing in in porn, the evolution of the sex toy and the decentralization of the industry, the rifts in liberalism, and how Springfield gave the glory hole -- also a petroleum-production term, perverts -- a bad name.

Oh, and for correction or clarification's sake, Metro was delisted from the NASDAQ in 1999, not 1995. The company might not officially be "run" by Guarino, as Greg Alves is Metro's President, though Guarino is Metro's principal shareholder, according to Metro's finance page on Google.